Название: The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise
Автор: Imbert de Saint-Amand
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 4064066149567
isbn:
Imbert de Saint-Amand
The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066149567
Table of Contents
THE HAPPY DAYS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER
I. EARLY YEARS
II. 1809
III. THE PRELIMINARIES OP THE WEDDING
IV. THE BETROTHAL
V. THE RELIGIOUS DIFFICULTY
VI. THE AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY
VII. THE WEDDING AT VIENNA
VIII. THE DEPARTURE
IX. THE TRANSFER
X. THE JOURNEY
XI. COMPIÈGNE
XII. THE CIVIL WEDDING
XIII. THE ENTRANCE INTO PARIS
XIV. THE RELIGIOUS CEREMONY
XV. THE HONEYMOON
XVI. THE TRIP IN THE NORTH
XVII. THE MONTH OF JUNE, 1810
XVIII. THE BALL AT THE AUSTRIAN EMBASSY
XIX. THE BIRTH OF THE KING OF ROME
XX. THE RECOVERY
XXI. THE BAPTISM
XXII. SAINT CLOUD AND TRIANON
XXIII. THE TRIP TO HOLLAND
XXIV. NAPOLEON AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS POWER
XXV. MARIE LOUISE IN 1812
XXVI. THE EMPRESS'S HOUSEHOLD
XXVII. DRESDEN
XXVIII. PRAGUE
THE HAPPY DAYS
OF
THE EMPRESS MARIE LOUISE
INTRODUCTION.
In 1814, while Napoleon was banished in the island of Elba, the Empress Marie Louise and her grandmother, Marie Caroline, Queen of Naples, happened to meet at Vienna. The one, who had been deprived of the French crown, was seeking to be put in possession of her new realm, the Duchy of Parma; the other, who had fled from Sicily to escape the yoke of her pretended protectors, the English, had come to demand the restitution of her kingdom of Naples, where Murat continued to rule with the connivance of Austria. This Queen, Marie Caroline, the daughter of the great Empress, Maria Theresa, and the sister of the unfortunate Marie Antoinette, had passed her life in detestation of the French Revolution and of Napoleon, of whom she had been one of the most eminent victims. Well, at the very moment when the Austrian court was doing its best to make Marie Louise forget that she was Napoleon's wife and to separate her from him forever, Marie Caroline was pained to see her granddaughter СКАЧАТЬ